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Cusco is a popular destination for tourists, because of  (it) unique place in the history of South America. Cusco was the capital city of the Inca Empire which was the most (power) in South America until the 1500s.There are two (especial) interesting things to admire about the Inca civilisation.first is the roads and paths they built (connect) their important cities. These Inca roads (make) up of two north-south highways and many small roads crossing the mountains east west. The roads were for Inca soldiers and their (official). Second, the Incas built wonderful cities full of (amaze) architecture-but there were no markets in these cities. One of the interesting questions of history is the Incas lived without shopping!

After graduation, I decided to take the gym seriously. Accompanied by a friend, I1 a routine of walking on the treadmill(跑步机). I was 2 with our routine in the gym. My friend, however, became bored.

One day, he suggested that we 3 an outdoor sport. I was an uncoordinated (动作不协调的) person, so I4 his idea.

But several weeks later, he managed to 5 me to step on to an outdoor racquetball(美式壁球) court. When I hit the ball, I sent it flying in every direction except the direction that I had 6 .Still, somehow, I tried hard to learn it and became 7 after constantly practicing.

"We're not getting enough8 on the treadmill z. Why not play tennis to build up our body?" suggested my friend.

"Tennis? I can't play tennis! That 9 real skills!" I firmly resisted(抵制) his new 10 However, weeks later, I started playing tennis. After several months of11 practice, one day, as the ball came flying towards me, my racket and the ball met in what tennis players viewed as the "sweet spot". I had 12 learned how to play tennis properly!

I learned a valuable 13 from these experiences：I can do whatever I set my mind on. I just need to put in efforts, and the results will 14 . And I become quite15 about trying new things and I'm always filled with a sense of excitement.

It is a great challenge to go from junior school to senior high school, which can be a brand new experience to teenagers. However, there's no need to worry..

You're not alone

Keep in mind that everybody else in your grade is in the same boat,. Moving up to senior high school is an opportunity, not a problem. Things are different and all that you need to do is to behave in a polite way and learn the new rules.

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Sometimes you may come across different situations. If you have no idea what to door are worried about anything, then turn to someone for help. Teachers are probably the best people to turn to as they're experienced in helping new students deal with different problems.

Changes are around you

.You'll have a homework diary or a student planner. In different classrooms you will have your lessons with different teachers. On different days you will have homework for different subjects, so make sure you get organized. Make sure you have a copy of your school timetable written down so that you know which rooms your classes are in and on which days you will have your different subjects. 

Other tips

Just be yourself!.Besides, having early nights makes a difference and you'll find it easier to get up in the morning!

A. Friends are helpful

B. Teachers are ready to help

C. Most of them are just as nervous as you are

D. You have to make a change in senior high school

E. Here are some tips on how to survive in the first week 

F. If you act naturally, people will know you much better 

G. There are lots of differences between junior high school and senior high school 

There have been many studies that show being in nature is good for your health. Walking in the woods is good for your well-being(健康). Living near trees can help you live longer. But when you go for a walk in the woods, what makes you feel good? Is it the sights or smells or sounds? A new study finds it might be the birds you hear while you have a walk.

Researchers from California Polytechnic State University analyzed(分析)how much the natural sounds people hear when they're outdoors influence well-being. They found that the "chorus(合唱)" of birds singing increased well-being in protected natural areas.

For the study, researchers put 10 hidden, evenly spaced(等间距的) speakers (扬声器) on two parts of trails(小路) in the Boulder Open Space and Mountain Parks in Colorado. They played recorded songs from 11 kinds of birds. The researchers take tums to play the birdsong for a few hours a day for a week, and then turned off the speakers for a week at a time. They interviewed hikers after they passed through the areas with the speakers.

"The main result is that hikers that heard the birdsong showed a higher level of well-being compared to those that did not hear the birdsong," Biology Professor Clinton Franeis, who led the research, says.

Hikers who heard more birdsong on the first part of the trail said they felt better. Those who heard more birdsong on the second part reported that they thought more birds lived along that part of the trail. This feeling of more birds helps make the hikers feel better. "With the chorus, we were able to show that natural sounds have a clear influence on the quality of hikers' experiences," says Francis.

When you hear the word "birthmark", you probably think of one of those black or brown spots that you have on your body. For me, it's different—I have them on my lips and inside my mouth. I'm used to being asked, "What are those black marks on your lips?" When I tell people they're birthmarks, they usually say, "That's strange." I used to consider them ugly. However, my mom calls them beauty marks

In pictures, I used to hide my birthmarks by pursing(噘起) my lips so I wouldn't have to deal with people's questions. As I was growing up, people wore me out with them. Some people would ask me the same questions even before knowing my name. In society I feel like we judge people by their looks before their personality.

My birthmarks are caused by a genetic condition from my mom's side of the family. My mom's mom has birthmarks on her lips, and my mom's uncle and my uncle have some on their bodies. Every year I plan to have a procedure to remove them. But when imagining the process, I always get nervous and give up.

My cousin faces a similar challenge. She has a huge birthmark that takes up her whole arm. She's never tried to hide it or change her appearance. Once, her grandmother told her that the birthmark looked extremely prominent and suggested that she should wear long sleeves more often. If my cousin had actually taken that suggestion, she wouldn't be such a personas she is.

Inspired by my cousin, I am finally accepting who I am and now I don't hesitate when someone asks me about them either. I say, "They're beauty marks" and smile without pursing my lips.

For more than a decade, Nancy Richards Fares e has been taking heartwarming photos of children around the world. Throughout her travels, the American photographer has noticed a common characteristic(特点) that seems to go beyond cultures. "They play no matter what's going on," she said on a video call.

When Nancy Richards Farese visited Cox's Bazar, Bangladesh, she took photos of the poor children there. Among the hardship, children played with what they made for themselves. They blew pinwheels(玩具风车) and pulled a water bottle as a toy with wheels and an old rope. She said, "The other adults and I had a thought of the seriousness of this situation. We were sorry they were in a difficult situation. However, the kids were actually doing something, quite naturally, to help themselves feel good."

Farese's new book brings together almost 100 photos she has shot while examining children's play across 14 countries. Her young subjects(年轻受试者) play chess in Jordan and in Cuba; they jump, laugh and run; they kick and throw balls, climb and jump ropes. Dolls and kites often appear. Many games are seemingly global.

The photographer said, "We sometimes pay no attention to the importance of playing, but when you talk to scientists, they will say it is one of the most fundamental (基本的) things we ever do in our lives. It is something we were born with. It helps shape our ideas and other characteristics. It's just interesting to realize that our abilities to work together, to understand tolerance(容忍) are just simple developmental sides that we practice in a game. And they are so important."

"We move through the world everyday with this treasure. We should allow ourselves to play as a regular practice—to be creative, to set aside even five minutes every day as a time when we're in nature," she added.

Each year Canada Chocolate Town, St .Stephen, New Brunswick, celebrates our community's rich and delicious heritage with our annual Chocolate Fest. Now in its 30th year, this week-long, family-oriented festival is "choc—full" of activities, fun events, and all things chocolate—related. Our beloved mascot, the Great Chocolate Mousse, and his lovely wife Tiffany, invite you to join us this August for the sweetest festival of the year—Chocolate Fest!

Carma Charlotte County Coffee Morning

9：30 a.m. to 12 noon

Location：St. Stephen Town Square

Come out and join us for a Starbucks coffee, cup of tea or juice and scrumptious home—baked goods, many featuring chocolate. Sponsored(赞助) by Carma Charlotte County and adoption programs(收养项目)—caring for homeless and feral cats. 

Dots Delecto Birthday Party

11 a.m. to 2 p.m.

Location：Boys and Girls Club of Charlotte County

Who does St. Stephen love? Dot Larsen! Please join us for chocolate cake and chocolate milk and help celebrate Dot's birthday. Come and play in our indoor/outdoor playground, have your face painted and enjoy a barbecue, to help raise funds for the Barracuda Swim Team. For details call BGCCC, 466-4300.

Lucy the Lady Bug's 1st Birthday Party

12 noon to 3 p.m.

Location：Kings brae Garden, St. Andrews

Come to celebrate with Lucy and her friends for a picnic on our front lawn (草坪) —bring your own picnic or have lunch at our Garden Cafe. At 2 p.m., join Lucy and her friends for an amazing race adventure through the big maze (迷宫), find treasure in the fantasy garden and much, much more!

Cost：$16/Adult, $12/Students and Seniors, Free/Children 6 and younger.

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Obstacles to the correct decision

Life is full of choices, some inconsequential, some really significant. But sometimes it can be hard to make the correct one. What are the obstacles that stand between us and a good outcome?

Some of us just find it hard to decide. Alice Boyes, writing for Harvard Business Review, tells us this can be connected to perfectionism, where people attempt to find a perfect solution to any problem and are unable to move forward when they can't find one. It might seem that being indecisive would stop us making the right decision, but in fact it could actually help us make the correct ones.

Susan Krauss in Psychology Today reminds us that people often make bad decisions because they base them on preconceptions rather than the context in which things happen. She highlights a paper by researcher Iris Schneider which finds that indecisive people are more likely to look at different perspectives and use them to come to a better decision. So, it could be that a more significant barrier to making the best choice is our cognitive biases.

David Robson tells us that intelligence can sometimes stop people making the right decision. People sometimes use intelligence to invent justifications for irrational beliefs. He believes that humility is key to making a good decision. People who can accept that they might be wrong are more likely to consider different viewpoints. He is backed up on this by Jeff Bezos. Tech CEO Jason Fried recalls the Amazon founder saying how the people who were right a lot of the time were the people who often changed their minds.

So, maybe rather than indecision, it might be intelligence and decisiveness, backed up by our biases that actually stop us making good choices while humility and indecisiveness could help us pick the best option.

The Great Migration

The Great Migration began when the North had a labor problem. The North had been relying on cheap labor from Europe — immigrants from Europe — to work the factories and the foundries and the steel mills.  As a result, the North decided to go and find the cheapest labor in the land, which meant many of African Americans in the South were not even being paid for their hard work. Many were sharecroppers(佃农) working for the right to live on the land that they were farming.

But it turned out that the South did not take kindly to this poaching(盗用，挖走) of its cheap labor.  They would arrest people from the railroad platforms and from their train seats. And when there were too many people to arrest, they would wave the train on through so that people who had been hoping and saving and praying for the chance to get to freedom had to figure out: How now will we get out?

Before the Great Migration began, 90 percent of all African Americans were living in the South, where they were nearly held captive. But by the time this Great Migration was over, nearly half were living all over the rest of the country.  

This Great Migration was the first time in American history that the lowest caste(种姓) people signaled that they had options for themselves and were willing to take them. Think about those cotton fields, rice plantations, tobacco fields and sugar plantations, where there were opera singers, jazz musicians, playwrights, novelists, surgeons, attorneys, accountants, professors, journalists. And how do we know that? We know that because that is what they and their children and now their grandchildren and even great-grandchildren have often chosen to become once they had the chance to choose for themselves what they would do with their God-given talents.

Technology has blurred the boundaries between work and play, professional and personal, and career and downtime. Whether it's a digital nomad(数字游牧民) blogging on a Bali beach or a manager checking emails on a Niseko ski lift, people are seamlessly combining work and leisure. The traditional boundary between business and personal travel is fading, giving rise to a new trend known as "bleisure travel."

Bleisure travel extends beyond the usual practice of bringing a partner to a conference. Professionals worldwide are increasingly adding weekends or even weeks to their work trips, whether they are traveling alone, with a partner, or as a family. According to Jeanne Liu of the Global Business Travel Association, more than one in three business travelers will incorporate a leisure component into at least one of their trips this year. Contrary to expectations, this trend is not limited to entry-level employees; managers and millennials are equally likely to partake in bleisure travel.

Employers are recognizing the benefits of bleisure travel, as it contributes to travel well-being, job satisfaction, and productivity. Taking the opportunity to bring family members along or adding fun elements to a business trip reduces stress and enhances the overall experience. Australians, who face longer working hours and higher travel costs, are particularly receptive to bleisure travel. Guests at business-oriented hotels like Quest St Leonards in Sydney are increasingly opting to have their partners join them for a weekend stay or longer, rather than making quick trips back home.

Richard Tonkin, a general manager who frequently travels for work, always extends his trips to explore new destinations. He carefully researches cities and books bike tours as a way to quickly see the sights and discover places of interest. Tonkin's wife, Enza, who works part-time, often accompanies him on these trips and explores the local area or indulges in her own activities, such as shopping or visiting galleries and restaurants.

The modern bleisure traveler is typically culturally curious and interested in local cuisine. Hotels like Quest St Leonards ensure their front office staff are knowledgeable about not only popular attractions but also hidden gems and events happening in the area. They provide guests with tailored guides that cater to their specific interests, whether it's offbeat cafes and boutiques or trendy bars and restaurants.

The main obstacle for most business travelers considering bleisure is time. Paradoxically(自 相矛盾的是), while technology enables them to work and play at the same time, it also limits their leisure time. However, as the trend continues to gain in popularity, more professionals are finding ways to strike a balance and make the most of their business trips by incorporating leisure activities.